Part 5: The Reckoning – From Neo-Nazis to Charlottesville to Kanye West

by Mark M. Bello “It can happen here. Maybe it has.” —Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) How did we get here? How did we get from Gentleman’s Agreement—a bold, conscience-driven film that dared to speak America’s name alongside antisemitism—to a country where antisemitic tweets trend globally, Holocaust denial lives on YouTube, and pop culture megastars declare love […]

Part 3: Judaism on Trial: McCarthyism and the Backlash in Tuxedos.

Hollywood, High Society, and the Limits of Polite Protest Introduction: From Courage to Silence by Mark M. Bello When *Gentleman’s Agreement* premiered in 1947, it seemed like a turning point. A major studio film—helmed by Elia Kazan, produced by Darryl Zanuck, and starring Gregory Peck—had taken aim at polite, coded anti-Semitism in America’s high society. […]